Whitney Edwards

@Leo Gura you helped my whole life. For that I'm deeply grateful to you. I won't forget that, from my heart, thank you.

If you pointed out every teacher's flaws in a video, you will run of business quite soon.

That's completely understandable and reasonable too.

@Leo Gura this is a problem even with doctors and scientists. You're always going to be dealing with people with different beliefs and opinions once you have a bunch of them. This is not limited to spirituality alone, it's a universal human problem. Comes with the territory. The only thing anyone would need is just open mindedness.

You're putting me in a mindfuck now.

Wrong.

Psychedelics aren't for everyone. You've to be a certain kind of a genetic freak to gain complete mastery over spiritual practices. It's simply not possible for everyone. Psychedelics are a hit or miss. Especially for those with specific mental disorders like bipolar, schizophrenia and other mood/instability related disorders as well as personality disorders and brain defects, would be highly vulnerable to the experiment of psychedelics, either inviting benefits or adverse effects depending on the brain's reaction, this varying from person to person, meanwhile some people might report beneficial effects on the scope of their disorder, others might severely regret having tried even minute amounts of psychedelics. Psychedelics vary a lot in terms of effect and potency. So meanwhile LSD could be considered safe at lower doses, dmt can be quite potent for most people to consume. Certain brains are more sensitive than others due to many factors, mostly genetic disposition and so any suggestion regarding the use of psychedelics should not be thrown around loosely out of candor. The same applies to yoga, meditation and practices like shaktipat. Some people can test the extreme limits of these practices meanwhile these might not benefit others or even cause adverse effects like certain facets of kundalini are considered too strong, Yoga too has not been fully effective for a lot of people out there. Abuse and misuse of spiritual practices including overuse of any method is far too common and sometimes even a bigger menace than the actual beneficial use of spirituality. You'll notice that the severe abuse of psychedelics (people getting addicted to tripping and hallucinogenic compounds) is very common in the psychedelic community. There are both benefits and risks with every practice depending on suitability which in turn depends on your genetic profile. For genetic freaks, a lot of things are possible. This being the main reason why a lot of people don't even bother to try spiritual methods at all and back out early on.

Why was he banned?

The alternatives are plenty - yoga, meditation, detachment, non duality, Buddhism, Hinduism, energy and vibration, shaktipat, kundalini Kriya and lucid meditation. All explained in detail by Sadhguru.

I don't think psychedelics should be the holy grail.

What do you mean by this?

Candace interviews Tate. The whole interview.

Or it would be absolute hell.

There will be no prisons.

@Ayham well by now it should have said "don't be a dick."

Yes yes yes yes. Me too. The distinct blurring.

Everything is experience.

Morty - at least you'll stop calling me a buddhist rat and insulting my no self and non suffering that I experience in my non duality. Ah that's better.

I was lucidly meditating again. I wasn't feeling bad or anything. But I saw shadowy figures. Then one dude was being instructed that he should be an alien race. I on the other hand was desperate for an enterprise. Things were happening that were beyond my control but at the same time, they carried some elements of my subconscious. My desire was to manage things like an account keeper. I wanted a simple life. Stuff like that that eluded me in real life manufactured themselves into the lucid realm. My soul was floating, an uncanny moment. I could feel it. It wasn't organic. It wasn't REM sleep. That's fr sure. Everything was directed by the mind. The body was a rock. The mind was water. If was as though the water could change the contour of the rock. Splashing and crashing on it like waves. Humongous waves. Terrible sensation. I did not feel distress. Just the weirdness of the experience. I simply kept observing. It was all subconscious. I was dancing between reality and ether world. I was thinking to myself why was I given the gift of life at all. I don't like new York. No no no. I don't like new York please. I'm scared of that place. That place means money. And I don't want that dry materialism. I am suffocating and dying if I'm in new York.. Then suddenly I'm taken to a new place. Mountains. Mountains. Valleys. Salt of the earth people. People who love me. People who understand me. In those eyes I see the glint I had been looking for, my soul searching ends, I breathe eternal peace.

Are you talking about attraction?

I don't necessarily agree with this. If you have a pet, you're gonna love them over time, it builds stronger. It cannot be spontaneous.

Your entire paragraph towards one thing - contemplations with intentions. Like an experiment sampler with different variables. It's good though. Something similar to what I do

Lying is a skill. It can be used for both good and bad. Honesty is a skill too. It can be used for both good and bad. The distinction between good and bad is blurred. Both good and bad are a part of reality. When you resist reality, you resist empathy. When you resist empathy,you cannot grow. Reality will never make perfect sense. In good we can find bad, in bad we can find good. Rigid moral principles are egoic. Everything is egoic. Because we're trying to protect something that we think is being threatened. Morality was invented for survival of the self. Lack of morality is also survival of the self, albeit in sneaky ways. The one is moralistic survival, the other is unmoralistic survival. Both are survival, one more conscious than the other. One comes from conscious brain. The other comes from reptilian brain. The energy and vibration are important, not good and bad. If something is deeply destructive, it will be bad energy. It might be moral but still bad energy. If something is deeply constructive, it will be good energy and vibration. It can be immoral but still good energy. The energy of goodwill(moral or immoral) is always innocent. The energy of badwilll (moral or immoral) is always corrupt and false Morality divides humanity just like religion does. Evil is not a monster. Evil is simply disregard.

@Carl-Richard @UnbornTao you both are confusing me. One says spiritual process. The other says direct. How does enlightenment happen? I'm screwed at this point. Mindfuck.